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Bend me, shape me: Flexible phones 'out by 2013' (Bendable Phones)
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| 11/29/2012
| BBC
Posted on 11/30/2012 6:41:05 PM PST by Dallas59
Imagine treating your phone like a piece of paper. Roll it up. Drop it. Squish it in your backpack. Step on it - without any damage.
Researchers are working on just such handsets - razor-thin, paper-like and bendable.
There have already been prototypes, attracting crowds at gadget shows.
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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: bendable; phones
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To: COBOL2Java
wow, so Jabba the Hut voted Obama....
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posted on
11/30/2012 7:21:22 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
To: Dallas59
All we need is a pair of glasses that projects whatever seemingly small or large size object we need on our retinas. The glasses will have a built-in headset so we can hear/talk. They will emit some sort of infrared light that we can move our fingers through to simulate key strokes, swirls, etc.
No need for any kind of gadget, no matter how big or how small or how bendable.
To: Revolting cat!
Did you steal those from Maxwell Smart?
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posted on
11/30/2012 7:29:08 PM PST
by
bramps
(Sarah Palin got more votes in 2008 than Romney did in 2012)
To: who_would_fardels_bear
Another feature for your dream smartphone...
Motion detection on the retina to move a cursor, combined with wink detection. Look at something on the screen, and close your left eye to “left-click” the cursor, or your right eye to “right-click”. Come up with some simple wink patterns to handle different click/select/drag actions.
To: American in Israel
When they really implement this stuff successfully, it won’t be so flimsy as a total package. They have stuff like, a cylinder that the flat screen rolls up into. It could be a keychain size, for a small phone, or something the size of a pocket flashlight, to roll out a tablet. You’ll still have something solid and substantial to hang out to, I think.
To: Revolting cat!
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posted on
11/30/2012 8:04:24 PM PST
by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: knarf
That’s me, too, but I did have one phone (RIP) that could have benefited from this feature.
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posted on
11/30/2012 8:11:35 PM PST
by
Gil4
(Progressives - Trying to repeal the Law of Supply and Demand since 1848)
To: Dallas59
Roll it up. Drop it. Squish it in your backpack. Step on it - without any damage. Flimsy, squishy, and not a rigid component in its body? Sounds like an expensive waste of time. They should name it "the Republican."
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posted on
11/30/2012 8:52:30 PM PST
by
Repeat Offender
(What good are conservative principles if we don't stand by them?)
To: Dallas59
Too bad weve lost the space race.
We might be able to make bendable phones but we cannot get a man to the Moon or even into orbit. Still, think back to the technology of 1970, we were able to achieve both the latter back then.
2012 Man: Look, we got bendable phones we can carry!
1970 Man: Yeah, but we can get a man to the Moon, you can't even get a man into orbit.
2012 Man: .............
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posted on
11/30/2012 9:17:42 PM PST
by
Nowhere Man
(It is about time we re-enact Normandy, at the shores of the Potomac.)
To: Revolting cat!
Nothing new under the sun!
I prefer the classic model.
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posted on
12/01/2012 4:56:34 AM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: Revolting cat!
Nothing new under the sun!
I prefer the classic model.
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12/01/2012 5:44:32 AM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
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